PERNOD RICARD - 2019 NOTICE OF MEETING

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DRAFT RESOLUTIONS

in the event of a free allocation of shares or securities granting y access to the share capital, to set the number of shares or securities granting access to the capital to be issued, the number to be granted to each beneficiary, and decide on the dates, time periods, terms and conditions of allocation of such shares or securities granting access to the share capital within the limits provided for by applicable law and regulations and, in particular, choose either to substitute, in full or in part, the allocation of such shares or securities granting access to the capital for the discounts on the Reference Price provided for above, or to deduct the equivalent value of these shares from the total amount of the special contribution, or to use a combination of these two possibilities, to record the completion of the capital increases for the amount y corresponding to the shares subscribed (after any reduction in the event of over-subscription), to offset, where applicable, the costs of the capital increases y against the amount of the related share premiums and deduct from the amount of such share premiums the sums required to raise the legal reserve to one-tenth of the new share capital following these capital increases, to take all necessary measures to preserve the rights of holders of y securities or other rights granting access to the Company’s share capital in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations, and where applicable, any contractual provisions providing for other adjustments, and to enter into all agreements, carry out all transactions directly or y indirectly via a duly authorised agent, including completing the formalities following capital increases and the corresponding amendments to the bylaws and in general, to enter into any agreement, in particular, in order to successfully complete the proposed issues of shares or securities, take all measures and decisions and carry out all formalities appropriate to the issue, listing and financial servicing of the shares or securities issued pursuant to this delegation of authority and the exercise of the rights attached thereto, and all formalities resulting from the capital increases carried out; acknowledges that, if this delegation is used by the Board of y Directors, the Board of Directors will report to the next Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, in accordance with laws and applicable regulations, on the use made of the authorisation granted in this resolution; decides that the Board of Directors may not take the decision to use y this delegation of authority as from the date at which a third party files a takeover bid for the shares of the Company unless it obtains prior authorisation from the Shareholders’ Meeting; this restriction shall remain in effect until the end of the offer period; and this delegation is valid for a period of 26 months from the date of y this Shareholders’ Meeting. Twenty third resolution (Delegation of authority to be granted to the Board of Directors to decide to increase the share capital subject to the limit of 2%of the share capital through the issue of shares or securities granting access to the share capital, reserved for certain categories of beneficiaries with cancellation of the preferential subscription right in favour of such beneficiaries) The Shareholders’ Meeting, deliberating in accordance with the quorum and majority requirements for Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings, having reviewed the Board of Directors’ report and the Statutory Auditors’ report and in accordance with articles L. 225-129, L. 225-129-2 to L. 225-129-6 and L. 225-138 of the French Commercial Code:

delegates its authority to the Board of Directors to decide to y increase the share capital, on one or more occasions, in the proportions and at the times it considers appropriate, through the issue of shares or securities granting access to the Company’s share capital reserved for the categories of beneficiaries defined below; decides to set the maximum nominal amount of capital increases that y may be carried out in this respect at 2% of the Company’s share capital at the close of this Shareholders’ Meeting, it being specified that: this limit is shared with that of the 22nd resolution of this y Shareholders’ Meeting, to this limit shall be added, where appropriate, the nominal y amount of any shares that may be issued, in the event of adjustments made to preserve, in accordance with law and regulations and, where applicable, contractual stipulations providing for other adjustments, the rights of holders of securities granting access to the capital, as well as those of recipients of stock options (both purchase and subscription plans) or free allocations of shares, the nominal amount of capital increases made pursuant to this y authorisation will be deducted from the maximum amount of capital increases with cancellation of the preferential subscription set by the 14 th resolution of this Shareholders’ Meeting, as well as from the Overall Limit set by the 13 th resolution of this day; acknowledges that this delegation of authority automatically y entails, in favour of the holders of securities issued under this resolution and granting access to the Company’s share capital, waiver by the shareholders of their preferential subscription right to the shares to which such securities will give right, either immediately or in the future; decides to cancel the shareholders’ preferential subscription right y to the shares that may be issued pursuant to this resolution, and to reserve the right to subscribe to the category of beneficiaries satisfying the following criteria: employees and Executive Directors of non-French companies of (a) the Group Pernod Ricard which are related to the Company in accordance with article L. 225-180 of the French Commercial Code and article L. 3344-1 of the French Employment Code, in order to enable them to subscribe to the Company’s’ share capital under conditions that are economically equivalent to those that may be offered to the members of one or more company savings plans under a capital increase pursuant to the 22nd resolution of this Shareholders’ Meeting, and/or UCITS or other employee shareholding entities, with or without (b) an independent legal personality, that are invested in securities of the Company, and whose unitholders or shareholders are persons described in (a) above, and/or any banking institution or affiliate of such an institution involved (c) at the Company’s request for the purposes of implementing a shareholding or savings plan for the benefit of persons described in (a) of this paragraph, insofar as recourse to the subscription of the person authorised in accordance with this resolution would be necessary or desirable to allow employees or corporate officers mentioned above to benefit from employee shareholding or savings formulas that are equivalent or comparable in terms of economic advantages to those from which employees would benefit under the resolution reserved for members of a savings plan under the 22nd resolution of this Shareholders’ Meeting;

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